Both diligent and persistent towards my goals, I am a very open-minded, yet effective leader, who will carry out all responsibilities with thoroughness and speed. Furthermore, I am very organized and able to manage multiple tasks such as tennis, academics, and many other extra-curricular activities with a sense of organization and balance. These qualities are crucial to the position with as much responsibility as Life Sciences Leader, making me well-qualified for the position. Being a freshman, many science courses that would normally be taken are not available to me, however, my previously mentioned variety of extracurricular activities have cultivated my passion and demonstrated my knowledge of the sciences. Among these honors and activities are participating in Science fair, where I placed first in the PJAS Regionals, third in Montgomery County Science Fair and participated in the Delaware Valley science Fair; Catalyst 4 Success in which I am a Co-Historian, which is an exercise of leadership and responsibility, and Chemistry Club. Although this year’s run in Science Olympiad has been successful, I would like to further improve the organization and structure of the entire club, along with creating more opportunities to practice and learn key ideas for the test by creating a consistent schedule for practices and meetings. With a more consistent schedule of meetings and practices, I am interested in implementing a point system to ensure each member is actively participating and contributing to the club. I believe my roles in being a member of SGA, the manager of the Girls Varsity basketball team, and the co-historian for Catalyst 4 Success have taught me the importance of communication and organization, and as an officer of Science Olympiad, I will use these skills and work together with fellow officers to create a more organized and successful club. Overall, I hope to follow the precedent of past Science Olympiad officers with creating a successful team for the Olympiad, while paving the way for future members and improving the club so that every member can have suggestions that will help make this club even more enjoyable and worthwhile.
Richard Zhang
Dear Science Olympiad members,
While I do commend us for an almost 10th place finish overall at this year’s competition, I believe that we can go higher, I hope to take us there as life science coordinator.
Science Olympiad is a great way for students to get incentivized to learn about science together with a group of other equally interested students, and for that, I think it’s a great thing and I want to help make it a better experience and improve our competition success as an officer.
While yes, it’s true that we need to come together as a team in order to take down this competition, there’s also something that we cannot get around: that science Olympiad requires hours of individual study and preparation. As an officer I would like to help focus on helping participants self-study.
Facilitating self-study will require:
·Earlier selection of events to allow for more preperation
·More complete study materials (reading material, practice tests, outlines) that I will help gather for the people in the life science events, which can also be passed down for future members
·Hold meetings more often and send out study materials and reminders on a regular basis so that members are engaged and have Science Olympiad on their minds. These meetings can also allow partners to come together and discuss topics and consolidate study materials, as well as build for building projects
·Incentive for people to do well at regional competitions and have overall knowledge of their concepts by creating a revised point system based on how well you do at the regional competition. And if you do not do well at the regional competition, there will be a safety system where the coordinator of your event helps either find or create a suitable practice test to test your knowledge. Know that if the club members see that you are diligent and study on your own time, we will take that into consideration for points regardless of regional performance
·Allow the winners full bragging rights because come on now they worked hard and you could’ve gotten those bragging rights too if you studied harder
And of course we will hold meetings to discuss the club in general for organizational purposes and so that people can throw around ideas to help improve the club. The more ideas, the better. Beyond just my ideas for improving the club, I also have a passion for biology (it’s so cool!):
·Bringing the biology Olympiad here to Upper Dublin and that’s all I did because I’m not going to take credit for the three semi-finalists (congrats David!) because they are excellent students who self-studied and I had nothing to do with that
·Biology related science fair project (specifically bioinformatics)
·Seeking biology related internship for the summer (hopefully that goes well haha)
·Studying AP bio next year
I will actively try and improve myself so that I have more biological knowledge and can help lead as the life science coordinator next year, and I hope I can implement my ideas to add to this club. So I ask you to please vote for me as your life science coordinator next year!
Dustin Zhang
Both diligent and persistent towards my goals, I am a very open-minded, yet effective leader, who will carry out all responsibilities with thoroughness and speed. Furthermore, I am very organized and able to manage multiple tasks such as tennis, academics, and many other extra-curricular activities with a sense of organization and balance. These qualities are crucial to the position with as much responsibility as Life Sciences Leader, making me well-qualified for the position. Being a freshman, many science courses that would normally be taken are not available to me, however, my previously mentioned variety of extracurricular activities have cultivated my passion and demonstrated my knowledge of the sciences. Among these honors and activities are participating in Science fair, where I placed first in the PJAS Regionals, third in Montgomery County Science Fair and participated in the Delaware Valley science Fair; Catalyst 4 Success in which I am a Co-Historian, which is an exercise of leadership and responsibility, and Chemistry Club.Although this year’s run in Science Olympiad has been successful, I would like to further improve the organization and structure of the entire club, along with creating more opportunities to practice and learn key ideas for the test by creating a consistent schedule for practices and meetings. With a more consistent schedule of meetings and practices, I am interested in implementing a point system to ensure each member is actively participating and contributing to the club.
I believe my roles in being a member of SGA, the manager of the Girls Varsity basketball team, and the co-historian for Catalyst 4 Success have taught me the importance of communication and organization, and as an officer of Science Olympiad, I will use these skills and work together with fellow officers to create a more organized and successful club. Overall, I hope to follow the precedent of past Science Olympiad officers with creating a successful team for the Olympiad, while paving the way for future members and improving the club so that every member can have suggestions that will help make this club even more enjoyable and worthwhile.
Richard Zhang
Dear Science Olympiad members,
While I do commend us for an almost 10th place finish overall at this year’s competition, I believe that we can go higher, I hope to take us there as life science coordinator.
Science Olympiad is a great way for students to get incentivized to learn about science together with a group of other equally interested students, and for that, I think it’s a great thing and I want to help make it a better experience and improve our competition success as an officer.
While yes, it’s true that we need to come together as a team in order to take down this competition, there’s also something that we cannot get around: that science Olympiad requires hours of individual study and preparation. As an officer I would like to help focus on helping participants self-study.
Facilitating self-study will require:
· Earlier selection of events to allow for more preperation
· More complete study materials (reading material, practice tests, outlines) that I will help gather for the people in the life science events, which can also be passed down for future members
· Hold meetings more often and send out study materials and reminders on a regular basis so that members are engaged and have Science Olympiad on their minds. These meetings can also allow partners to come together and discuss topics and consolidate study materials, as well as build for building projects
· Incentive for people to do well at regional competitions and have overall knowledge of their concepts by creating a revised point system based on how well you do at the regional competition. And if you do not do well at the regional competition, there will be a safety system where the coordinator of your event helps either find or create a suitable practice test to test your knowledge. Know that if the club members see that you are diligent and study on your own time, we will take that into consideration for points regardless of regional performance
· Allow the winners full bragging rights because come on now they worked hard and you could’ve gotten those bragging rights too if you studied harder
And of course we will hold meetings to discuss the club in general for organizational purposes and so that people can throw around ideas to help improve the club. The more ideas, the better. Beyond just my ideas for improving the club, I also have a passion for biology (it’s so cool!):
· Bringing the biology Olympiad here to Upper Dublin and that’s all I did because I’m not going to take credit for the three semi-finalists (congrats David!) because they are excellent students who self-studied and I had nothing to do with that
· Biology related science fair project (specifically bioinformatics)
· Seeking biology related internship for the summer (hopefully that goes well haha)
· Studying AP bio next year
I will actively try and improve myself so that I have more biological knowledge and can help lead as the life science coordinator next year, and I hope I can implement my ideas to add to this club. So I ask you to please vote for me as your life science coordinator next year!